• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    In a press conference after the decision was released, Trump said he planned to impose a new 10% global tariff under a never-used law known as Section 122, which gives him the power to put in place tariffs up to 15% for 150 days (at which point Congress must step in).

    Every. Damn. Time.

    Can never do good things because of some arcane procedural rule (I know I know, it’s 'cause they don’t really want to anyway). Can always do bad things because some made-it-the-fuck-up law

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Know this is very lib of me, but yeah. It says a lot about chuds that they actually went out and made neo-nazism mainstream again and started doing its policies even more in no small part because people they considered beneath them made mean comments about white men, and clearly they need to be scared back into remembering who’s boss.

      But we’re the oversensitive ones.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The supreme court: “Trump’s tariffs are illegal.”

    Trump: “The supreme court is bad. Very, very bad. So I got brand-new ‘temporary levies’. They are not tariffs. But just as good as tariffs. Just like tariffs.”

  • LaughingLion [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    love how 3 justices were like “yeah these things are illegal but it would be really hard to undo them so we should just keep doing the illegal shit”

    real cool of the branch of government that ultimately decides the legality of shit to just admit they ignore the legality of shit when making their decisions